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The University of Copenhagen is growing and attracting more research funding than before. Even so, its reserves will be depleted before 2030 if management’s measures fail. Uniavisen gives you an overview of what is putting the university’s finances under pressure - and what management plans to do about it.
After a year and a half of negotiations, the Royal Danish Library and Danish Universities have given up on reaching a new agreement with Oxford University Press. In the humanities, Associate Professor Christian Dahl fears that researchers and students will overlook important knowledge.
12 percent of the technical-administrative staff covered by the University of Copenhagen’s administrative reform report sickness absence due to work pressure and stress. University Director Søren Munk Skydsgaard calls the figure »too high« and links it to new managers, new tasks, and an administration where not everything has yet fallen into place.
According to the organisers of a language policy hearing, Danish is being sidelined at university despite an official parallel language policy. But the rector does not share their concerns.
State employees — including university staff — can now look forward to more pay, better parental leave terms, and more flexibility. This is after an agreement that also focusses on stress-related illness, says a UCPH union representative.
At the Royal Danish Academy, David Dreyer Lassen spoke of fierce competition, an increase in fixed-term appointments, and the need for new criteria for recruitment of academics.
Both research and teaching will feel the aftershocks of the large-scale cuts at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, with entire research fields set to disappear. The dean announces tighter financial controls.
When their contracts expire this summer, two popular literature lecturers at the University of Copenhagen stand to lose their jobs — or get stuck in positions without any allotted time for research. Their story is not just about them. It is about what research-based teaching should look like in the future.
Sergey Rosbakh left the Faculty of Science in December 2025 and now says that the credibility of UCPH as an employer has been undermined. According to the dean at the faculty the risk of reputational damage is a »genuine concern«.
Highly educated young Americans are losing jobs to AI. Things are not yet that bad in Denmark. But in the long run AI could lead to mass unemployment, says UCPH sociologist.
